> All his talk about getting to Mars to "maintain the light of consciousness" (...) is actually BS While I hate Elon's politics, I love space exploration, and

> All his talk about getting to Mars to "maintain the light of consciousness" (...) is actually BS While I hate Elon's politics, I love space exploration, and I believe his motivation with SpaceX is sincere. From the start he made SpaceX with the goal of getting to Mars, and after all these years SpaceX is actually getting near the capability of sending tens of tonnes of cargo to Mars. He's been talking about getting to Mars for more than 20 years, he became a member of the Mars Society in 2001 and wanted to fund a small (unmanned) Mars mission[0], when he wasn't yet a billionaire, but very rich from PayPal, and before SpaceX was founded. Then he invested a big part of his fortune in SpaceX, which was a very risky bet. Even in the early days of SpaceX he planned to make a big rocket capable of getting a big payload to Mars[1] (the "BFR" that the 2005 article is talking about is today's Starship). I wish he had stayed focused on Mars, instead of making Earth's dirty politics even dirtier. [0] https://spaceref.com/status-report/marsnow-19-profile-elon-musk-life-to-mars-foundation/ https://spaceref.com/status-report/marsnow-19-profile-elon-m... [1] https://www.thespacereview.com/article/497/1 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/497/1